From the forums:

GENERAL

• Loyalty Merchants now have new armor, weapons, house items and a pack of random Harvestables for sale.
• Resolved an issue where particle effects would play twice on Aerakyn.

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION
Tranquil / Phantom Seas

• Players who kill a named NPC in either Tranquil Sea or Phantom Sea will no longer be able to see or kill the same named for 2 hours.

Precipice of Power [Raid]

• Dread Armoloch of Blight and Dread Armoloch of Corruption should now allow reactives and wards to counter their damage over time spells.
• Dread Armoloch of Blight and Dread Armoloch of Corruption should no longer break stealth with their damage over time spells.

Brokenskull Bay: Bosun’s Private Stock [Event Heroic]

• Poisonous Gash has had its damage slightly reduced.
• Eggtender Varogg should no longer occasionally reset when he teleports away from players.

Ossuary of Malevolence

• Carrion Plague’s casting time has been increased from 1 second to 2 seconds.

Ossuary: Sanguine Fountains [Heroic]

• Final boss will now drop an accessory and armor piece 100% of the time.

Ssraeshza Temple: Inner Sanctum [Heroic]

• Final boss will now drop an accessory and armor piece 100% of the time.

ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT
General

• Fixed a bug where level 80 to 100 ancient spells did not require the grandmaster to scribe. Lower level ancients do not require a grandmaster.

Ranger

• Hawk Attack now has a longer duration at Grandmaster.

QUESTS

• Cataloguing Vesspyr quests may now only be completed once every 10 hours and should now grant much more status.

 

From Bunji on the official forums

WEEKLY FEATURE

• Lore and Legend: Awakened Aerakyn is now available.

HOUSE ACTORS

• House Actors will now save changes made to their greeting distances between loading and reloading a house.

ITEMS

• Colcatoth, Spine of the Leviathan can now be used by all priests

PVP and BATTLEGROUNDS

• Ethereal and Artifact weapons may be obtained via victory daily missions in Battlegrounds.
• Ethereal and Artifact weapons now grant PvP statistics.

Bunji on the Official Forums posted this week’s patch notes:

From Bunji on the official forums:

WEEKLY FEATURE
HOUSE ACTORS

• House actors are mannequins that can be customized to have a player race appearance. Once the appearance has been selected, the actor can be set to play an action in your home or guildhall!
• House Actors are created via a carpenter recipe that can be purchased from the loyalty merchant. This recipe requires a unique component that may be obtained from top tier harvest nodes.
• Editor’s Note: Check out Niami Denmother’s excellent write up on House Actors.

GENERAL

• Fixed a bug where getting 100% rent reduction on your house could cause your house to fall off the leaderboards.

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION
Temple of Veeshan: Dreadscale’s Maw

• Lord Kreizenn should now kill all players with his Chromatic Storm if failure conditions are met instead of just killing the first person on his list.
• Lord Kreizenn should give more feedback when his various abilities cause someone to die.
• Lord Kriezenn will now drop two Flawless Purple Gemstones and has an increased chance for a second accessory.
• Cer’matal the Gatekeeper will now drop two Vibrant Purple Gemstones and has an increased chance for a second accessory.
• Lady Mirenella will now drop two Pristine Purple Gemstones and has an increased chance for a second accessory.
• Lord Feshlak will now drop two Shimmering Purple Gemstones and has an increased chance for a second accessory.
• Irdul of the Glacier now has an increased 25% chance for a second accessory and now uses the tier two accessory table.
• Telkorenar will now drop two Cracked Purple Gemstones and has an increased chance for a second accessory.
• Bristlebane will always drop a second accessory.
• Vulak’Aerr the Dreadscale will now drop two Glowing Purple Gemstones and will always drop a second accessory.
• All accessories that drop inTempleofVeeshan: The Dreadscale’s Maw that grant a bonus to resists will now grant between 1650-1750 more resists.
• Accessories dropped by Exarch Lorokai the Unliving that grant a bonus to resist will now grant 900 more resists.

The Fractured Hive [Heroic]

• The Ancestral Column in the Fractured Hive no longer spawns on the platform where Queen Meacidaris is fought. It now spawns on the large open floor below.

ITEMS

• Upgraded Hero Bracers may now be examined to claim an item that will exchange your Hero Bracers for different stat layouts.
• Draconic Stone of Divine Redirection now correctly grants wisdom.

PVP
Battleground: New Tunaria Warzone

• Corrected an issue where players were not getting quest credit for PvP kills.

Luperza announced yesterday they were pushing back the original date of the next EQ2 Insider from June 18th to July 9th.  The thread is still open to ask your questions – but she requests that you keep them short and to the point.

This month on EverQuest II Insider Q&A:

• Cast: Margaret Krohn, Kyle Vallee, Michael Ganz, and Nathan McCall!
• Q&A: We’re going to be answering your questions LIVE! Ask about anything! if you can’t make it, feel free to leave us a question right here in this thread or on Twitter, Facebook, and or Google Plus by Tuesday, July 8th, 2014 at 10:00 PM PDT. 

Where: http://www.twitch.tv/ everquest2

<YouTube Link will be Placed Here After Show>

When: 07/09/2014 2PM – 2:30PM PDT

Don’t forget to use our hashtag #EQ2Insider and follow us on Twitter @EverQuestii, and @PurrfectStorm

 

If you want to know what EverQuest II Insider is or how you can be a part of it, go here!

From Bunji on the Official Forums:

WEEKLY FEATURE
The New Tunaria Warzone is now available on the Battlegrounds Server via a portal in Champion’s Respite.

GENERAL

• The Loyalty Merchant and Loyalty Marketplace will now correctly sell adornments that are below maximum level.
• A small bag of platinum coins will now sell for the correct amount of platinum if purchased off of the loyalty section of the marketplace.

Level up, Gear up…discord style!

• For the duration of the “Gear Up! Level Up!” promotion, Havoc Marks and Marks of Devastation will be awarded at twice the rate.

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION
Temple of Veeshan: Dreadscale’s Maw

• Corrected an issue that would potentially cause certain pet classes to get instantly killed upon getting resurrected if they were not protected by Dragonsbane.

ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT
Necromancer

• Miragul’s Dark Heart will no longer overwrite more powerful Hearts that are already in your inventory.

ITEMS

• Great Waters now correctly states that it does not stack with itself.
• Shared Dragonsbane now applies to group members within 999 meters from the wearer and persists through death.
• Arced Conductivity should now always apply the potency increase.

From Bunji on the official forums

 

WEEKLY FEATURE

• A new currency exchange merchant, Barnaby Blunderbuss, has been added to the docks ofButcherblockMountainswhere you can exchange most currencies for transmuting and tinkering training components. Some of the eligible currencies include Maj’Dul insignia tokens, Void Shards, D.I.R.T.Y. Money and many more!

GENERAL

• All AA EXP event messages now include the amount of EXP granted.
• Resolved an issue where the amount of EXP displayed when converting adventure EXP to AA EXP did not reflect any server or personal bonus multipliers.

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION

Templeof Veeshan: Dreadscale’s Maw

• The spell “Melting Soles” should now show up in detrimental window.
• Lady Mirenilla’s Keepers can no longer be stunned.
• Lady Mirenilla’s Keepers buffs should no longer state they can be charmed.
• Lady Mirenilla will more fiercely protect her summoned beast as long as it does her bidding.
• Lady Mirenilla’s beast should no longer remain dazed longer than intended.
• Lord Feshlak’s dancing flames should no longer be targetable.
• Lord Feshlak’s dancing flames should not despawn if they grow too large.
• Lord Kreizenn’s scent of blood ability should be correctly checking for dead players.

MERCENARIES

• When their owner is not in combat, Mercenaries will regenerate health at an increased rate.

TRADESKILLS
Recipe Window

• The recipe list has been playing memory training games and will now properly remember and display the position of the recipe you just crafted after item creation.

ITEMS

• The Shady Swashbuckler now has six second versions of the Bloody Shank weapons available for sale.
• Statistic bonuses on Bloody Shank have been improved to match the difficulty of completing the quest.
• Inconspicuous Strike III and IV have had their damage values corrected.

From Luperza on the Official Forums – a new contest sponsored by EverQuest 2.  As of the date of this post – there are only two entries.  It does appear you must have a Facebook account to enter.

Salutations Norrathians!

If you didn’t catch our first episode of EverQuest II Insider, you may have missed one of our announcements about future contests! Starting in May, we are doing a monthly contest. These may vary in theme, requirements, and rewards, so if you have any good ideas for future contest ideas, send them our way!

May’s contest is all about housing décor with a draconic theme! Head over to our sweepstakes and submit your photo! This contest ends May 27th, 2014 at 2PM PDT. Three winners will be chosen. Each winner will attain a bundle of up to five housing items of their choice (at the discretion of SOE) that’s worth $25.00 USD.

We can’t wait to see your photo submissions! Don’t forget to send us your ideas and tune into the next EverQuest II Insider on June 4th, 2014 at http://www.twitch.tv/ everquest2.

Holly “Windstalker” Longdale has posted a new Producer’s Letter which can be found on the EQ2 Forums

Highlights include:

• New Matchmaking Code for Battlegrounds
• New PVP Warzone
• Converting old currencies
• House NPCs
• New Loyalty items
• New Deathtoll Fabled Dungeon
• Status Merchant Revamp
• June Promo – Gear Up, Level Up

Here’s the letter…

Dearest Norrathians,

We’re working to bring you a lot more information about what we’re doing, why, and when. To that end, here’s a quick overview on what we’ve done recently and what’s coming soon!

As a quick recap of our larger content releases in April and May so far, we launched:

• High Keep Contested dungeon
• High Keep Guild Halls
• Temple of Veeshan raid zone
• Ethereal/Artifact items (in Tears of Veeshan mission crates for a couple of months)

From Bunji

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION
Temple of Veeshan: Dreadscale’s Maw
The spell “Pressing Luck” should no longer grow based on the number of players it hits. Instead it should grow based on the number of times it hits each player respectively.

Servers will be coming down for an update – from the forums:

The US EverQuest 2 Servers will come down on May 13th, 2014 at 7:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time for an update. The expected downtime is approximately one hour.

EU servers will come down beginning at 9:00 PM PT (6:00 AM CET May 14th, 2014) for the same update. Downtime is anticipated to be approximately 2 hours.

Patch notes after the jump.

Get Your Game on at SOE Live 2014!

Just posted over at the official forums a few details on Live Quests and Tournaments for all the games.

Big Highlight — International attendees may participate!

By: Aimee “Ashlanne” Rekoske

Every year at SOE Live we offer a schedule full of panels featuring the games you love to play, games you can’t wait to play, and other burning topics any SOE Gamer would find interesting. The schedule always includes activities like Live Quests and Tournaments. Brand new this year: International attendees may participate in our Live Quests and Tournaments! Detailed rules and prizes will be posted in the coming weeks. We wanted to get this information out to you before Early Bird registration closed!

Check out the ways you can participate!

From the official forums:

GENERAL

• Fixed a bug where you would not get credit for the High Keep guildhall if you were grouped with a merc, or players who are not in your guild, when you claimed the items.
• Fixed a bug where you could not use PayPal to purchase Station Cash.